We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

If we want to fight people in the world, we should fight them with pillows – pillows stuffed with food, medicine, music… That would be so much cheaper than bombs.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.

Ethiopia didn’t just blow my mind; it opened my mind. Anyway, on our last day at this orphanage a man handed me his baby and said, ‚Would you take my son with you?‘ He knew, in Ireland, that his son would live, and that in Ethiopia, his son would die.

I’ve learned never to say never.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice.

Have you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

For a highly motivated learner, it’s not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you’re a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Always do whatever’s next.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

It’s hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can’t or won’t see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

Forget the past.